Archive for January 1st, 2018
Happy New Year! Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week (Jan. 1, 2018)
Happy New Year, FFR! We know we just had a songs release, but we wanted to kick off 2018 by surprising you with another!
We hope you have prepared some ambitious New Year’s resolutions. If they involve a lofty skillboost, let us know what your FFR goals for 2018 are! *(The New Year fills you with determination.)
New Game
Musician: Nitro Fun
Step Artist: juckter1
Song Genre: Dance2
Style: Electro
Difficulty: 68
Song Length: 2:11
The Fated Hour
Musician: Exias
Step Artist: Silvuh
Song Genre: Dance2
Style: Instrumental
Difficulty: 69
Song Length: 2:49
Thank you for being with us for a huge milestone – our 15th revolution around the sun.
- The Game Management Team
Happy New Year!
Happy new year to all of you keysmashers. 2016 proved to be a great year for the game on a number of fronts – a huge amount of file judgments completed, a number of great game updates, and of course, we had our 11th Official FFR tournament, which proved to be a more punishing than normal endeavor for most of you. But with that, the 2016 page of FFR’s book has been turned.
To open 2017 for FFR, we’re releasing a song that is familiar to most of you: Our Journey and Epilogue. by aaaa. “But wait, isn’t that in game already?” Yes, bmah graced FFR with his great chart, but it’s for a shorter version. Today, we bring you a chart for the entire composition, in all of its 5:47 glory. The chart should feel somewhat familiar to most players – it’s relatively close in difficulty to the original, but is more technical from start to finish and requires more focus to piece together.
Our Journey and Epilogue.
Musician: aaaa
Step Artist: YoshL
Genre: Game Music
Difficulty: 94
Song Length: 5:47
FFRMas Conclusion
Thank you all for your continued patience on the results and prize distribution of FFRMas prizes! I’ve got everything tabulated out for you guys and it will all be paid out to you tonight.
On day 11 of FFRMas, I announced that there would be a raffle for three chances to win the more elusive Event tokens (FREEDOM DiVE and The Wises Were Wrong).
The winners of that raffle are: MarcusHawkins, MikeShinoda12345, and sickufully. If you have both tokens already, or don’t desire the tokens (i.e. you’re an R^3 player and can’t play The Wisest Were Wrong), feel free to say as such and I’ll give you 25,000 credits instead.
lurker/evil smoke: You did not designate a specific token for your prize on the corresponding FFRMas day, so you can feel free to drop that in here as well.
Again, happy new year, everyone!
With the exception of lurker/evil smoke and their token selections, all prizes for FFRMas have been paid out.
- TC_Halogen
Submission Rules/Guidelines Addendum
Hey there, everyone! With the November/December batch period beginning, we wanted to introduce and familiarize simfile artists with rule changes regarding file submissions. These new changes and additions are put into place for the purpose of improving clarity within some ambiguous areas of the file submission process, as well as tying up some loose issues that we have been seeing over the past few years.
Click here to read the changes, or click the image above to go to the Rules/Submission Guidelines thread and join the conversation.
- TC_Halogen, DossarLX ODI & psychoangel691
11th Official Tournament Round 2
Edit: There’s been an unofficial discord chat made where you can talk to all your fellow FFR users about the tournament. Check that out here
Welcome to round 2 of the official tournament! Here are this rounds songs
D1
Boooring!
Musician: Assertive Fluttershy
Length: 2:43
Step author: TC_Halogen
D2
I’m Alive (Jarvis Remix)
Musician: Bourke & Vegas
Length: 2:00
Step author: Xiz
D3
GIN TONIC FLAVOR
Musician: q/stol
Length: 2:35
Step author: hi19hi19
D4
Shade of Gloria
Musician: tcheb
Length: 2:36
Step author: hi19hi19
D5
Divinity Garden
Musician: daisan
Length: 2:29
Step author: hi19hi19
D6
Diamanté Spectrasplosion
Musician: Blitz Lunar
Length: 1:46
Step author: hi19hi19 & ilikexd
D7
You’re gonna love my nuts
Musician: Reizoko Cj
Length: 4:37
Step author: gameboy42690
Good Luck!
July 2016 Site Updates
Welcome back to another month of site updates! Good luck this week to all remaining Official Tournament participants. We’ll be back in Round 6 for another round of updates. Happy keysmashing!
New Features!
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• The R^3 results screen has been improved to provide better context for scores. Song and replay results now display: AAA equivalency, raw goods, song difficulty, song length, player level, and a gold line to distinguish a “AAA” run.
• The FFR Sitewide Rules have been updated! Thanks to DossarLX ODI, Sky Kitten, and the rest of FFR Staff who helped revise our code of conduct.
• Based on your feedback from the Normal token revamp proposal, development for this update will continue this month. All Normal token locations have been disabled.
Community News
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• devonin has returned to the Global Moderation team! Don’t forget: you’re here forever.
• The Development team grows stronger by the month. One Winged Angel has been promoted to Developer!
• The FFR T-shirt campaign ends in only 4 days! If you have been waiting to purchase your limited edition FFR shirt or hoodie, now is your last chance. All proceeds go towards providing prizes for events.
• Deadlyx39′s Bracket Tournament has concluded. Congratulations to Gap0911 for walking away with a grand prize of 305,000 credits!
PrawnSkunk
— FFR Development & Design
Songs of the Week (Mar 1, 2016)
Greetings, Bi-Weekly Songs of the Week has resumed and will occur every Tuesday night 10 PM EST. This time around we’ve got DRAGONLADY and Pointless Fast Rap. Both have pointless lyrics, but one of the songs is energetic happy techno with jacks to pointless lyrics while the other is streamy pointless rap. Comment on this week’s song in this thread.
Also remember that users are encouraged to participate in the Active Sets by leaving their thoughts on user submissions in the Public Batch. For more resources on song submissions, you can always visit the Getting Started link under the Song Submission menu in the navigation bar.
DRAGONLADY
Musician: Nankumo
Step Artist: hi19hi19
Song Genre: Dance 2
Style: Happy
Difficulty: 71
Song Length: 1:31
Pointless Fast Rap
Musician: Boyinaband
Step Artist: gameboy42690
Song Genre: Hip Hop
Style: Pointless Rap
Difficulty: 37
Song Length: 1:15
- DossarLX ODI and your Game Management Team
New Years Update: Change of Leadership
Greetings FFR, and a happy new years!
To those who do not know who I am, hello there and a pleasure it is! I was the primary point of contact, system administrator, and lead developer for FFR over the last few years. I haven’t made it out into the open very much in recent history, so I don’t blame you for wondering who this dude is.
I will start my bit with a huge thank you to all of the staff who put up with the first few years of my presence, and for you all taking my rise to lead in stride. I tried my best for the majority of the time I headed the operation, but I think it’s time for some new fresh energetic leaders to take control.
A thank you to those of you who enjoyed the radio broadcasts with me, and who spent long hours in prochat discussing, among other things, your opinion on FFR and its future. I would name names, but I spoke to so many of you that I would forget at least half I’m sure. The things we spoke of were written down though, and still remain in the pool of ideas for the future, so don’t worry.
As of the summer I unofficially stepped down from my position. I hung around on behest of our benefactor, but about a month ago I decided to move on. That’s all.
It is with great pleasure that I officiate your new primary arrow in the sky. PrawnSkunk! I have been showing him the low level ropes of the server over the last few months, and I believe he is qualified enough to step into my shoes–as I stepped into apersons so long ago. Please join me in a warm congratulations to PrawnSkunk, and the best for the coming years. Best of luck to you, the entire community, in keeping the legend alive.
Cheers,
Zageron
P.S. A final goodbye for those who thought I had a good taste in music. 
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Hello FFR, PrawnSkunk here!
It has been close to eight years since I joined Flash Flash Revolution, and I have been developing site features for almost a year now. Zageron has been my good friend, and the person who gave me the opportunity to volunteer as a programmer. Thank you Zageron for all the work you’ve put in over the years, and good luck with your future endeavors! Right now we have a team of talented staff working hard to push this game to continue to grow. I look forward to leading the next generation of keysmashers!
Songs of the Week (Dec 1, 2015)
Welcome to December! This time around we’ve got some Gamelan and J-pop. Following DREADNOUGHT, bmah impresses us with a song name that turns out to be little japan girls singing. Comment in this week’s thread!
miko
Musician: tarolabo
Step Artist: ilikexd
Song Genre: Misc
Difficulty: 77
Song Length: 2:25
Rampage
Musician: paraoka feat. haru*nya
Step Artist: bmah
Song Genre: Dance 2
Difficulty: 66
Song Length: 2:38
- DossarLX ODI and your Game Management Team
Question to Users Regarding the Official Tournament
Hey all, now that it’s May I’ve been thinking ahead to the official tournament. As you know we’ve been doing all new files for every round in each division for the last I believe it’s 5 tournaments now. As you know, this has sometimes caused delays in the past. So I wanted to ask all of you, do you think it’s necessary to stay with all brand new files in all rounds? Or use already in game files and do new files for the final round? Open to any other suggestions you all may have as well. I’ve created a poll, so please go vote there and leave a post about why you chose that option so I have a better idea of how the community feels about this topic. You can find the poll here.
EDIT I’ve heard you guys loud and clear on wanting new content. I’m going to to my best to get new content and still kick the tournament off at a good time. Simfile authors out there, I’m going to need your help. For the current batch please try to submit files that you think would be fitting for the tournament. We also tend to lack in the lower and higher range. So try to get things in that are say from 15 to the 50 range for the low side and 80+ for the high side. If these things get submitted into this batch there will be a better chance of filling the slots needed. Let’s all work together and make this happen!
Thanks in advance!
